The graying of America is being reflected in the nation’s drug crisis millions of aging former drug users are living with long-term health challenges exacerbated by their previous substance use We hear from a number of people in recovery about their experiences and Ali Rogin speaks with Wall Street Journal health reporter Julie Wernau for more Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy The graying of America is being reflected in the nation's drug crisis millions of aging former drug users are living with long term health challenges exacerbated by their previous substance use A generation of addicts who grew up during the 1960s and 70s is aging And whether they have gotten clean or are continuing to use More than 2 million Americans over the age of 65 have substance use disorders That's more than a tenfold increase in a decade And today many are seeking support from a health care system grappling with the unique needs of this population for the first time We spoke with a number of people in recovery about the health challenges they have faced while getting older which they say are related to their years of substance abuse my name is Shelley Dutch and I am 70 years old which is probably direct use of my intravenous drug use I had issues with irregular heartbeats and arrhythmias I had lost 40 pounds and was malnutrition and had neuropathy in my toes I don't use any kind of opiates or benzos for pain Just being an addict in general and what I'm aware of because I'm also a recovery coach They seem to have a whole different attitude with the addict than they do with the normal guy out there And we as adults can go on and thrive and have beautiful lives if we take it seriously and make recovery from any kind of co-occurring disorders a real commitment in our lives Julie Wernau is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and she's the author of a recent article entitled "A Generation of Drug Addiction Survivors Is Entering Old Age." Julie who repeated a 12 step maxim which is we're not bad people trying to get good is that a perception that the people you've talked to have encountered when they try to enter the health care system and get medical care for issues related to their advancing age The stigma attached to this generation of drug use survivors is particularly strong They'll be possibly going to the same hospital that they've been to 20 times before and often are sort of treated as if they're people who can't get better and are sort of just a drain on the system So often what you'll see is a lot of delayed care because folks just decide that they're not going to show up anymore to doctor's appointments or to the hospital And when you get to be 72 years old and used serious illicit drugs for most of your life And so what kind of problems do people tend to have but I wonder if there are any commonalities that you've come to understand in your reporting this is a group just by virtue of the fact that they exist One of the things that generally complicates their health is that a lot of folks are using fentanyl on the street have been homeless for possibly an extended period of time or in prison been a big wear on their health in general You have the kinds of diseases that come about from intravenous drug use So there are folks with hepatitis C who are now dealing with what's happened to their livers you sort of lose years of your life to drug use And so if you're starting over in your 60s or your 70s there's a lot that you might have missed that the general population learned on the fly over the years Is this healthcare system equipped to help these people in the ways that they need help The healthcare system right now is overburdened as it is We haven't really recovered from the pandemic is really playing catch up in terms of being able to provide the same services that you would get on Medicaid for an older population that might just now be deciding to truly enter recovery from drug addiction And because a lot of those people who are entering recovery now are dealing with a landscape that was very different from when a lot of these baby boomer era folks started using when you talk to older folks who are still using or in recovery they come from a completely different generation And so it's interesting because sometimes you see a generational gap where people who are both in recovery but in different generations aren't speaking the same language about that recovery And I've seen some of that play out as well Ali Rogin is a correspondent for the PBS News Hour and PBS News Weekend reporting on a number of topics including foreign affairs She received a Peabody Award in 2021 for her work on News Hour’s series on the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect worldwide Rogin is also the recipient of two Edward R Murrow Awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association and has been a part of several teams nominated for an Emmy including for her work covering the fall of ISIS in 2020 the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2014 Andrew Corkery is a national affairs producer at PBS News Weekend © 1996 - 2025 NewsHour Productions LLC PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization Subscribe to Here's the Deal with Lisa Desjardins Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Julie Wernau, a star business reporter for the Chicago Tribune who made a name for herself covering energy and green technology, is leaving to join The Wall Street Journal. including what she calls “the soft vices — coffee cocoa and the main ingredient in screw drivers.”  “I’m looking to expand into national and international reporting many more years left in my career,” she said Sunday Covering energy and the utilities in particular has been a wild ride.” A graduate of the University of Connecticut Wernau joined the Tribune in 2009 from The Day Publishing Company a daily newspaper covering southeastern Connecticut Wernau went out with bang: Her blockbuster story in Sunday’s Tribune exposed how Commonwealth Edison spent $60 million in ratepayer money for political and charitable contributions over the last eight years Contact Robert Feder via e-mail Wernau Asset Management Inc. purchased a new position in Ford Motor (NYSE:F - Free Report) in the fourth quarter according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The firm purchased 34,774 shares of the auto manufacturer's stock Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company Hager Investment Management Services LLC bought a new stake in Ford Motor during the 4th quarter valued at $26,000 Bank of Jackson Hole Trust bought a new stake in shares of Ford Motor during the fourth quarter worth about $29,000 Kentucky Trust Co acquired a new stake in shares of Ford Motor in the 4th quarter worth about $31,000 Access Investment Management LLC bought a new position in Ford Motor in the 3rd quarter valued at about $34,000 Crewe Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Ford Motor by 169.9% during the 4th quarter Crewe Advisors LLC now owns 3,285 shares of the auto manufacturer's stock valued at $33,000 after purchasing an additional 2,068 shares during the last quarter 58.74% of the stock is owned by institutional investors F stock traded down $0.05 during midday trading on Thursday 136,553,109 shares of the company's stock traded hands compared to its average volume of 84,266,008 The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.31 a quick ratio of 1.02 and a current ratio of 1.16 Ford Motor has a 52 week low of $9.06 and a 52 week high of $14.85 The firm has a market capitalization of $38.07 billion a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 0.61 and a beta of 1.63 The company has a 50-day moving average price of $9.73 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $10.39 Ford Motor (NYSE:F - 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While Ford Motor currently has a Reduce rating among analysts top-rated analysts believe these five stocks are better buys View The Five Stocks Here Sign up for MarketBeat All Access to gain access to MarketBeat's full suite of research tools by Anna Fifield, Lucy Hornby, Wenxin Fan What this battle means for coverage of China was a topic of discussion during a virtual talk in September at the Nieman Foundation Moderated by New York Times diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief Edward Wong the discussion featured three journalists who have covered China from within its borders: Wenxin Fan a Wall Street Journal reporter now based in Hong Kong; Anna Fifield who recently finished a two-year stint as the Beijing bureau chief for The Washington Post; and Lucy Hornby former deputy bureau chief in Beijing for the Financial Times The group discussed China’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the challenges of reporting on the country from within and afar, how foreign coverage of Xinjiang — the autonomous region where China has built nearly 400 internment camps holding Uighurs and other Muslim minorities — could influence the government’s actions Anna Fifield: I had covered North Korea for a long time When I arrived in China [as the new Beijing bureau chief in 2018] I have to stop myself from looking at everything through a North Korean lens.” China seemed to make it really difficult for this There were so many things that struck me as very similar in terms of the personality cult surrounding Xi Jinping that he’s created around himself and the restrictions and increasing dangers in reporting partly because of the intense surveillance The minders were waiting for us; we were tailed throughout We were constantly called by the [government] minders to be reminded of the rules we counted eight cars actively following us I did not try as a reporter to have any conversations with people on the street because I knew that these heavies were following us and that there would be repercussions for people if they spoke to us even if it was just “How’s your business going after Covid?” and things It felt like any conversation would endanger them and invite unwanted scrutiny in the same way that it does in North Korea I would have chitchat with people probably more than I did in Xinjiang while I was there a source that I’ve known for quite some time said to me ‘We used to think that North Korea was our past but now we realize it’s our future.’” To hear this from him reinforced my own conclusions That was my very sad parting shot to China I don’t see any change happening anytime soon Wenxin Fan: Reporting in Hong Kong is still fine but traveling back to mainland China is difficult for me as a Chinese citizen because of the risks it involves Once you are caught reporting in China [for Hong Kong publications] I was about to go to Wuhan in January to cover Covid because I had some experience covering SARS The Wall Street Journal was somewhat encouraging it’s lucky because two months later some of my colleagues were expelled from China and some of my colleagues who were in Wuhan were kept there until the end of the epidemic there Some of my Chinese colleagues who went to Wuhan were from Beijing I had gone back [to China] a couple times for stories that were relatively non‑sensitive I would give the story to a colleague based inside of China and do a partnership with them Things were getting palpably better for pretty much everybody Foreign reporters that had been extremely limited in the ’80s But we saw a real change starting around 2008 when Beijing hosted the Olympics and there was an uprising by Tibetans When we bring out normal citizens’ points of view when we bring out their trials and tribulations it helps the rest of the world to get a more nuanced understanding you get an increasing influence within China of security services or people who are leftists who think that Western influence is a bad thing we’ve done a lot to tell China’s positive story if shrill pronouncements from the foreign ministry are going to be what dominates people’s perceptions of China that’s not going to do China any favors either Hornby: One thing I would like to highlight is that the Beijing press corps is largely responsible for telling the rest of the world what’s been going on in Xinjiang A lot of people I know were motivated by what they learned in school about the Holocaust and by a real desire that it not go in that direction That’s been a tremendous influence on the rest of the world and because I came from Reuters and the Financial Times is that reporting on the Chinese economy is important — not just because of the way it influences the rest of us but also because the Chinese economy can’t be only understood by their official statistics We journalists bring a lot to the table in terms of questioning when it’s all good news and helping people outside understand how their countries intersect with China It’s an old subject going back to the ’80s and we’re seeing a very different approach in terms of public opinion forming in terms of conquering foreign reports on Twitter who are people paid to praise the government it’s a different group of people who are very aggressively attacking anyone who is critical of China especially against the Chinese citizens’ own criticism It’s taking China on a trajectory on the world stage that is quite dangerous We’re seeing this on Twitter as an influence campaign when a lot of the China‑related accounts were taken out Where it really plays out is on certain Twitter accounts which are always contradicting reports by foreign journalists as well as on Weibo where people are very much attacked when they are critical It’s part of the reason why Covid was not caught in the first place Fifield: To echo what Lucy said about Xinjiang everything the world knows about Xinjiang is because of the incredible reporting that The New York Times The Globe and Mail did about what was happening there and showing the truth of China’s lies about what is happening there a lot of the great reporting on that was also done outside the country from Kazakhstan from people who’ve been able to escape and are then safe to do it A lot of this reporting can be done from outside the country which increasingly people are having to do because they’ve been expelled that’s] not the entirety of the Chinese story It’s so important to have foreign correspondents on the ground telling the story of how ordinary people are thinking Since I went back this year after being shut out for a few months I was trying to report about what Chinese people think about what has been happening in the world this year The one that sticks in my mind is that I wanted to write about international students who were Chinese students who were supposed to go to Harvard their parents didn’t want them to go there because it’s too dangerous to be in America with Covid That’s very much in line with what Xinhua was reporting I’d arranged a bunch of young students to talk to they all called back and canceled and said there were unspeakable reasons or they didn’t realize we were foreign media It’s become really hard to talk to ordinary people The thing that I wanted to focus on is the role of propaganda in China today and the Chinese Communist Party’s control over the information and the narrative within China A big thing that’s changed in the past few years is not just that the Chinese authorities have blocked more and more websites none of our publications are accessible inside China The BBC World can be broadcast but there’s no BBC website People increasingly don’t have access to outside information People increasingly do not use VPNs to access them but I’d say the vast majority no longer bother They just exist within China’s parallel internet The way that that is shaping young Chinese people’s thinking about their country and their country’s place in the world is very profound Fan: I think the answer [to whether we can rely on them to cover things inside China] is yes and no most of the stuff originally came out of Chinese media We’re not just talking about a magazine called Caixin but a number of publications that did good stories Much of the coverage in the foreign press on Wuhan and Covid had some sources coming from the stuff we [in China] read This is quite encouraging in a way because we always hear the journalism in China has died in the last few years You can hardly rely on a translation of what you saw Chinese publication to know what’s happening there in Xinjiang relying on Chinese nationals is still off‑limits AP — which hire quite a lot of Chinese nationals but cover mainly economic and business issues But they do play a role when there are major stories There will be some of that support in those realms if they can be kept there inside of China there was only one time when it was impossible That was during the Cultural Revolution [in the decade between 1966 and 1976] when the Reuters correspondent Anthony Grey got locked in his own basement for two years That was obviously a very dark time for all sorts of reasons It’s going to be a long time before there are no foreign correspondents in China I include the really valuable work being done not just by Americans I think it’ll be a long time because there’s still a desire and a need in China to attract attention They recognize that that is not going to happen if they don’t have us there Though these foreign journalists are tolerated [they’ll be] very circumscribed on what they’re reporting Fifield: There has been a lot of pressure from Western countries on China about this so a lot of their efforts had been on trying to convince Muslim countries to write positive things about it so they conducted a lot of press tours where they brought in journalists from Saudi Arabia and Iran and other places in the Middle East to try to influence the coverage there by Western media did force China to admit that the camps existed which they denied for a long time until the evidence just became incontrovertible Now China is saying that the camps have been a great success and people have been let back out to be full members of society again There are all these actual prisons being set up to keep the population under control Shining a light on what they’re doing has had an influence but it hasn’t stopped China from behaving in this way As we’ve seen with what they’ve done in Hong Kong the aggressive efforts there and what they’re doing inside the mainland they know that there’s a cost for these kinds of actions but they see benefits that seem to outweigh those costs so they continue regardless Hornby: I agree with Anna that there’s been a certain amount of international noise that may or may not have been as strong as we would have wanted it to be that reporting on things like this can do is give ammunition to people within the Chinese system that also don’t support their country going back to a Stalinist state but also every question we ask in a press conference every time we stand up in front of the premier and ask about this it goes into the record and it is seen by every single person at the top ranks of the Chinese hierarchy That gives some of these people a chance to say Whether they want to say it from the point of view of “We’re going to lose investment dollars,” or whether they want to say it from the point of view of “We don’t want to go back to being that kind of society,” whatever angle that they want to take we can give them ammunition by making the noise externally We shouldn’t underestimate our ability to do that Not whether or not some rights organization somewhere in Stockholm has something to say about it Fan: Chinese citizens are very interested in the subject of surveillance There is similar coverage inside of China on surveillance issues The thing is that Chinese citizens want convenience more than anything WeChat and other apps have made it very convenient for Chinese citizens If your data is being lost to the world of WeChat I don’t think people necessarily want less foreign coverage They do have distrust over China’s own coverage The thing I worry about is people who read the coverage but have been trained to interpret it differently It’s a little bit like the fake news debate people are reading the same thing but come to totally different conclusions That’s somewhat happening in China as well in the old days it was Wumao and later on it was Little Pink It’s going through a culture shock in reading a different kind of narrative Help advance the Nieman Foundation’s mission “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism” by making a donation © 2024 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain 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Read our Privacy Notice This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings we will not be able to save your preferences This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again Get ready for the new generation of fast-food restaurants: They're becoming more modern more sleek and more technologically advanced Wendy's has rolled out a program that lets customers pay using smartphones Starbucks has added digital tipping for many of its stores Taco Bell allows people to order online before heading to the store And McDonald's has added digital menu boards to some of its locations Redesigns inside the restaurants are becoming more popular "We are definitely seeing the trend in (quick-service restaurants)," said Chianne Hewer a spokeswoman for the Arizona Restaurant Association The changes please consumers and satisfy their demand for technology we try to be hospitable to what they want." The McDonald's location at Cactus Road and Tatum Boulevard in Phoenix has become one of the most recent in the Valley to undergo a transformation new play structures and digital menu boards We are still a family business," owner Jerry Wernau said "But we feel that this modern décor now really accommodates pretty much all ages The redesigned McDonald's has an interactive touch screen table that changes colors and video games throughout the restaurant "We have very loyal customers," Wernau said "McDonald's has got a history of keeping up with the times," Wernau said "And I'm sure in 10 or 20 years down the road Many are familiar with the story behind Cpl. Kyle Carpenter's Medal of Honor, but few know much about the friend and fellow Marine he was trying to protect Now a documentary filmmaker is sharing the story of Lance Cpl a young man who was told he'd never speak again When Carpenter jumped on an enemy grenade on a rooftop in Afghanistan in 2010 he sustained shrapnel wounds and massive damage to his right side the Marine he tried to shield from the blast survived with a severe traumatic brain injury Carpenter was thrust into the public eye when he received his medal but Eufrazio and his family have largely avoided media attention A new 13-minute documentary film by artist Thi Linh Wernau gives a glimpse into Eufrazio's recovery depicting him laughing and talking with family members reading bits of original poetry written prior to his injuries and discussing his current hobbies: skiing and fishing Beautiful." — a larger photo and film series featuring wounded veterans is shown sitting in a wheelchair in his home in Plymouth He lights up with an infectious smile when Wernau But it's miraculous considering his doctors' prognosis that Wernau asks Eufrazio to read aloud a poem about his early ambitions to play football and receive a commission as a Marine officer "I worry that I'm not good enough to be an infantry officer .. I try not to let people down and to make things easier for everyone by doing my part I hope that people will wake up and see what I am doing and realize why I am doing it," he reads The film shows brief images of his hospitalization following the blast His injuries required spinal taps and a shunt to relieve pressure on his brain and he still has a concave mark at his right temple The film also shows Eufrazio interacting with his mother who lives about 90 minutes away in Gloucester said she chose to feature Eufrazio with his family to emphasize the importance of wounded veterans' caregivers an event started by Marine veteran Andrew Biggio who declined through Andrew Eufrazio to comment on this story had some wariness about being featured in a public project once they learned about her project and her intent to honor and empower wounded veterans "What I do is outside the pomp and circumstance of ceremonies and parades," she said "And it's also outside of the package of traditional media Wernau said she didn't discuss Carpenter's recent Medal of Honor ceremony at which President Obama publicly acknowledged Eufrazio and wished him well or the public account of what happened in the moments before the grenade detonated Mark Eufrazio has previously disputed the account that Carpenter jumped on the grenade saying he wouldn't have survived the blast if he had "I positioned it [as] this is about sharing who he is as a person," Wernau said "I didn't go there to say anything about recent events." Wernau is using the series to raise support for wounded veterans through the Semper Fi Fund with nearly $2,000 raised so far toward her goal of $20,000 She'll feature more than 30 photographs from "You Beautiful." at a Boston art gallery exhibition in October an event that she said will be attended by Col commander of the Marines' Wounded Warrior Regiment Another project focused on wounded veterans is still in the works Wernau said she plans to release a feature-length documentary titled "Darkness and Light" next spring The film will be based on interviews with 11 different wounded veterans